Experience of digitizing herbarium data and developing a database of plant species distribution

Digitization of data from the Herbarium of Institute for General and Experimental Biology SB RAS (UUH) has been started. Currently, 6 009 records entered into the database, for which 5 227 georeferences are given. 4 889 records (81.3%) from the dataset contain georeferences of medium and high accuracy. The largest part of data is represented by samples from the Republic of Buryatia and includes 5 036 specimens with 4 724 georeferences. Based on the available data we have analyzed spatial distribution of vascular plants in Baikal Siberia, identified the main herbarium collectors, noted collections from protected natural areas and findings of rare plant species.